This is correct. I don’t see a downside on the left working with Trump on his populist ideas that won voters over. You can still fight the good fight on the majority of issues but also work together to fix the ones that people care about a lot.
The absolute dumbest thing the Democrats could do is work with Trump on anything. So they will probably try to do it. They appear to be hopeless. Their pretty much complete silence as Trump over and over names cranks and cronies and crooks and sex pests to his administration has been pathetic.
The Democrats need to oppose this administration strongly and loudly from day 1 (it's what the Republicans do as a matter of course when the Democrats are in charge). The Democratic path back to power is to point out and oppose the fascistic authoritarian nature of the Trump/Maga movement, and the over-the-top corruption, incompetence, lawlessness and meanness that comes along with it.
Normalization of this anti-American BS by "working" with Trump is bad, horrible politics and bad, horrible for them and the country.